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I want to feel like I feel when I'm asleep

>>9962979
Names don't apply to Him. Only titles (God the Father)

ground of being

He wanted the Hebrews to stop asking questions and just get on with the plan.

>>9962973
The Metamorphoses by Franz Kafka

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>>9962973
There is currently a humorous books thread. You should check the catalog before you post threads, you run the risk of bumping off one of the 4 threads we have about that instagram poet, or even one of our 5 Dr. Peterson threads.

>>9962973
The bible

Great book. But it's written by a black man, so people will try to take shots at it here or completely dismiss it.

Shameless rip off the HG Wells version, but with less invisible dicks

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>>9962968

>>9962964
Usually highly intelligent individuals have a certain disdain for morality.

>>9963026
If you compare logic and morality, there is a definite difference in actions people do. Think tipping wait staff. The logical guest tips according to the service provided so that they will hopefully improve their service over time. The moral guest tips generously even if he wasn't attended as much as he wanted because he can put himself in the waiter's shoes. I personally believe you can be both morally and cognitively intelligent, but that is probably pretty rare.

>>9962964
thats why i cinfrimed that there is in fact an intelligence (capacity) that evades traditional logic, call it emotional intelligence, spirtual intelligence, moral intelligence whatever, its a way of measuring virtue, not numerically of course, circumstantially. That is why Intelligent does not equal wise. Wisdom is the practice of virtues. Logic is the practice of reasoning. But to be fair virtuosity is embedded with reasoning as well. but still both capacity and practice are different.

>the nose was designed to hold up spectacles
> we have spectacles

>>9962939
God loves all and would like all to love back. It's the entire reason for creation in the first place, the perpetuation of love. He hates sin because it is the opposite of love, and only by Jesus' sacrifice and God's grace are we sinners with faith be forgiven.
But of course God can be sad about those who have no faith, for they are lost to Him. Jesus cries over Jerusalem as the people turn away from God.
Jesus also wept for Lazarus, not out of social awkwardness lol, but because He was upset that His friends were upset.
Also Matt 26:38 "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death", of course feels sadness at the Father's plan but he carries it out anyway: "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will." (Matt 26:39)

So for us, like Jesus, there are reasons to be upset too. Lost souls, empathy, and that's God's "fruitful outcome" may bring us extreme negative outcomes in this life.

>>9963005
>only by Jesus' sacrifice and God's grace are we sinners with faith be forgiven.
but that is theoretically incorrect. God chose to die on the cross but it was not in fact mandatory, his omnipotence cannot be reduced to an action lol he clearly states in the bible he can make humans out of stones and that reality is irrelevant if he does not consider it. As for sadness, which was my original concern. Jesus was never actually sad, he just mimicked a reaction that properly coincides with what the people were feeling but there was nothing to literally be sad about for him because he was just about to wake him up. It's a very strange occurrence, that i don't even think can be properly explained. As for sorrow before death. Very strange occurrence. I know he was taking upon the sin of the world, and when he said that his humanity was on display. It was more of a hardware deficiency than actual display of interior. He says to have taken the sins of the world upon himself, and perhaps the worlds sadness as well. To me, attributing it to frustration and fear may be more realistic. Fear because it would hurt his flesh (which for some reason he wanted to endure), and frustration because he can't change minds. He still was divine, and his true nature comes out after the resurrection, when he basically tells them, hey numb nuts why the long face and shock, i fuckin told you a thousand times IM GOD. It's almost like a poignant play, but in reality there truly never was no threat. And that God let us live life now as it, not under his immediate presence, to show us a life of sin is worse. But the spirit is truly, solely, where the danger actually is, no one can save themselves from physical pain, thats a God's power and choice, but someones is in complete control in saving their spirit and invigorating it by saying yes to Jesus, this is the presented theory from life. Signs of sadness is in fact not reasonable but a sign of a deficiency.

I'm tight about this because I just finished the book for the first time a few days ago and don't have my copy on me. I vaguely recall what you're referring to but the only thing that's coming to mind is the passage about anhedonia, which I'm assuming isn't what you're talking about since that's not Spanish and doesn't specifically refer to addiction.

I'll try to find it when I go home later. Anyway, general discussion: I was 400 pages in when I made peace with the fact that I'll have to (and will) read the book a second time, which I think I'll enjoy more than reading it the first time. I missed everything having to do with how the actual plot ties together, but still enjoyed it. How many times have you read it, OP? Tell me your story.

I think you're talking about tecato gusano, which is latin. Pg 200, according to the glossary.

http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=T

>>9962728
First for having read Eugenio Loboe after everyone shilling him in these threads and loving every book.

Is Larson really worth reading? I keep seeing people shilling his Undying Mercenaries or whatever.

>>9962738
>Eugenio Loboe
motherfucker I even googled that before it clicked

Yes to all of the above.

It's not as if every single verse was stressed over as much as every single line of Shakespeare. But overall, you'll find more lines of great/influential prose in the KJV than almost anywhere else.

That said, it's really a matter of what you consider to be good. 17th century writing is generally overrated because it was when contemporary English was being solidified, so writers could be a little bit more creative since the standards weren't set yet.

>>9962829
>17th century writing is generally overrated
It's the apex of English writing though, how can it be overrated?
Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe, Spenser, Burton, Browne, Ben Johnson, Dryden, KJV translation, Chapman's homer translations, the metaphysical poets
Just to name the absolute cream of the crop.

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Btw look at this awfull picture I found when I searched him on Google images. (I admire him btw)

>>9962644
When it comes to anything that isn't psychology, he is a charlatan who is in for the money.

Smart guy but not a very good philosopher. I like him for going against political correctness but also opposing /pol/ autism. At the same time I feel his fans listen to his videos in order to feel smart without actually reading

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>>9962631
(You)

>>9962631
What is this garbage? It reads like a diary. Learn how to employ the comma, you mongoloid.

>>9962631
1. Don't use contractions (like 'don't') in formal writing.
2. line 1, 'reading and writing ... are', not 'is'.
3. Why is 'important' quoted?
4. line 1, 'generally' is unneeded.
5. 'mind altering' should be hyphenated.
6. line 3, 'ironic' means what exactly?
7. line 3, you've used 'compel' twice now
8. line 3, the remaining part of the sentence after 'and consume' makes no sense at all.
9. line 4, you've ended 'any reason not to' on a preposition. Although this kind of thing is 'ok' nowadays, in my mind it isn't. This is your choice.
10. line 5, 'literary' is unneeded, as you've mentioned 'reading' and 'works' and this obviously implies 'literary'; besides this is sounding too pretentious.
11. 'transposes ... ideas into the structure of your brain itself'. This is too pretentious and verbose.
12. line 7, 'however 'important' this is...' So you're going to leave perhaps the most interesting sentence in the entire thing unanswered?

13. second paragraph, line 1, change 'then if' to 'and if'.
14. same line, remove 'truly'.
15. 'poetic feeling'? Pretentious: explain or remove.
16. 'beyond words'? Cliché: you're explaining it now.
17. 'effect on when read'. Makes no sense: remove 'on'?
18. 'which comes to mind'. Unneeded, remove.
19. line 3, 'whose'. Don't use 'who' with inanimate objects, Siddhartha is a book: use 'the ending of which'.
20. same line, 'one of the ... synergy'. Should be plural.
21. Do you want to expand on WHY Siddhartha was good? Or just skip over it entirely like here?
22. line 4, 'sub conscious' is one word.
23. line 5, 'utilitarian'. Pretentious: explain or remove.
24. line 6, you're missing 'to' from before 'read'.

cont.

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’Twas about seven o’clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem’d to say-
“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”

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When the train left Edinburgh
The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
Which made their hearts for to quail,
And many of the passengers with fear did say-
“I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.”

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But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

The Colour Out of Space is really good.

The Thing on the Doorstep

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Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Suck my pixie dick, cunts.

Yes, he raped a retarded girl who then died giving birth to his child.

>>9962556
His character is solipsistically egoistic and self-indulgent, in fact he's such a cancer on his family that only one out of his four children does not want him dead. He's hurt and rightly so, if he's not a bad character then bad characters don't exist.

Bad people can be hurt too